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Moving from 560ti to GTX 760 (Update, with new ??)
Will it be plug and play? From my previous post I've decided on a moderate upgrade, GPU and monitor ~ possibly a SSD a little later on.
I'm moving from a 20" to a 24"HD...
I noticed that the 760 states PCI-E 3.0, I have a 2.0 - will it matter?
Also what do folks think of the standard EVGA?
- Update, I got the 760 and it requires one 8-pin and one 6-pin, even though my PS meets the requirements 850W, and volts, amps, etc... I only had two 6-pins. I used the adapters that came with the card to get it to work. I tested the new card with GW2, the FF ARR Benchmark and so far it seems to be working fine...
Should I have any concerns regarding the lack of required connectors and my using the adapters instead?
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3.4ghz Phenom II X4 965, 8GB PC12800 DDR3 GSKILL, EVGA 560GTX 2GB OC, 640GB HD SATA II, BFG 1000WATT PSU. MSI NF980-G65 TRI-SLI MOBO.
You shouldn't have any problems with the install. PCI-E 3.0 is backwards compatibal with 2.0. Also I highly recommend EVGA graphic cards they are well made and perform nicely.
How are the 2GB MSI and ASUS versions ?
Also is the 4GB FTW by EVGA worth the price diff?
MSI and Asus are good GPU makers as well, but I prefer EVGA. You would only need a 4GB card if you were planning on running a mutli monitor setup or maybe if you were gonna be using a resolution higher than 1920x1080
My standard advice on video card upgrades is, double your performance (or better) or else don't bother. Here, you'd be looking at maybe a 50% improvement in performance, and without any meaningful feature upgrades. A GeForce GTX 770 would roughly double your performance.
As for video memory, for gaming purposes, the difference between 2 GB and 4 GB of video memory is that the latter will let you use ultra high resolution textures in the few games that offer them. And that's it. If it's a price difference of $5, then maybe you get the extra memory. But the extra high memory cards are low volume products, so usually they cost a large price premium way out of line with any benefit you'd get from them.
Should I have any concerns regarding the lack of required connectors and my using the adapters instead?
It came with my case, it's a SOLY-TECH SL-8850EPS... I'm certain it's a POS.
EDIT - I found this link, don't understand the info though.
http://www.plugloadsolutions.com/80PlusPowerSuppliesDetail.aspx?id=65
Aslong as it works, that's what matters. That it can screw up your system, sure, but everythings a risk.
No point in going out and buying a new power supply at least.
You updated the Nvidia Geforce drivers? Uninstalled the previous cards drivers and installed updated new one's I assume.
Those power adapters are designed to be used in exactly the kind of situation you ended up in, it shouldn't be a problem at all and they should work aslong as your power supply gives out enough power.
If it's a 850 watt rated power supply, it should, regardless.
I have a dual core cpu clocked at 3 Ghz, a radeon hd 6870 and 8 gig ram in my system with one HDD and when putting my cpu on prime 95 to get pushed to the limit, all the while putting on the most graphics demanding game I have.
My power draw never goes above 250 watts at the cable in the wall, using a electricity watts measuring tool that is decent enough.
So if it works, it works, and that's that.
The people and the friends that we have lost, and the dreams that have faded, never forget them~
Your fine man, thats why new cards come with adaptors like that incase if you don't have 8 pin .
Here you can see the difference in fps between the two cards you have:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/858?vs=854
It's a safe well known website.
As you can see, you should get a pretty decent fps boost aslong as your cpu and computers RAM amount is up to spec.
The people and the friends that we have lost, and the dreams that have faded, never forget them~
A Google search found that that is the unnamed 800 W power supply that iBuyPower includes with some systems. And that's definitely a worthless piece of junk. The 80 PLUS certified power supply that you found a link to has a very similar (possibly identical) model number, but it's an unrelated unit from the same company.
The danger of a bad power supply isn't that you'll have to replace the power supply at some point. It's that it will fry other hardware and you could potentially be stuck with having to replace the entire computer--including the video card that you just bought. Or arguably worse, it could slowly damage other hardware and cause weird glitches that you can't track down until you finally give up and replace the entire computer as the only way to fix the problems.
Buying a fairly high end power supply to replace the one you have now costs a whole lot less than you just spent on a video card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151118
Or if you really want to save money and get something adequate but decent, you could try this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151096
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The problem with using power adapters to make up for plugs that the power supply doesn't have isn't that the adapter pieces don't work. Rather, it's that you're likely giving the power supply a load that the manufacturer didn't think it could safely handle. After all, if the power supply manufacturer thought it could handle the load, it would have included the plugs for it. There can be exceptions for doing some really strange things where the power supply vendor simply didn't anticipate it, such as if you want to have 10 hard drives in one system. But plugging in a single, fairly high power video card is a very common use, and it's all but guaranteed that the power supply vendor had considered that you might want to do that.
The 650 W power supply I linked above has four 6+2-pin PCI-E power connectors (meaning, they can function as either a 6-pin or an 8-pin). That's double what you need to plug in your card. Even the cheaper 620 W one has a 6-pin and a 6+2-pin, which is exactly what your card wants. I've seen power supplies as low as 450 W that have the plugs you'd need, though I wouldn't recommend going that low on wattage, especially with your power hog of a CPU. That an "850 W" power supply wouldn't have the plugs for it says a lot about what the manufacturer thinks it can--or more to the point, can't--handle.